Child Psychotherapy, War and the Normal Child: Selected Papers of Margaret Lowenfeld. The Lowenfeld Mosaic Test: By MARGARET LOWENFELD.
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This book is essential reading for all those involved in the Psychology of the Child. 'It is hoped that the drawing of Lowenfeld's insights in this publication will stimulate a revival of interest in her very original ideas'. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 'The portrait of Lowenfeld that emerges from this collection is a major acquisition for a gallery of unrivalled interest and importance'. Radical Philosophy. 'Throughout her long and innovative life, Margaret Lowenfeld emphasised the development of new forms of communication with children, especially devoting herself to the diagnosis of troubled children.
By understanding and using the tools she developed, we can experience, and so partake of, her insights'. From the Introduction by Margaret Mead, world renowned anthropologist and author of Coming of Age in Samoa, to Margaret Lowenfeld's Understanding Children's Sandplay. 'Margaret Lowenfeld left an indelible mark her unique understanding of play and the development of the World Technique have caught the imagination of countless practitioners and researchers, who have absorbed her methods into their work, often without knowledge of her innovative contribution'. From Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet S. Friedman, Sandplay: Past, Present and Future. 'It is hoped that the drawing of Lowenfeld's insights in this publication will stimulate a revival of interest in her very original ideas.' - The British Journal of Psychiatry.
'The portrait of Lowenfeld that emerges from this collection is a major acquisition for a gallery of unrivalled interest and importance.' - Radical Philosophy. 'Throughout her long and innovative life, Margaret Lowenfeld emphasised the development of new forms of communication with children, especially devoting herself to the diagnosis of troubled children. By understanding and using the tools she developed, we can experience, and so partake of, her insights.' - From the Introduction by Margaret Mead, world renowned anthropologist and author of Coming of Age in Samoa, to Margaret Lowenfeld's Understanding Children's Sandplay. 'Margaret Lowenfeld left an indelible mark.
Her unique understanding of play and the development of the World Technique have caught the imagination of countless practitioners and researchers, who have absorbed her methods into their work, often without knowledge of her innovative contribution.' From Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet S Friedman, Sandplay: Past, Present and Future.
LondonResting placeSt Lawrence's Church,NationalityBritishEducation,OccupationMedical practitioner, researcher and trainerKnown forPioneer in andParent(s), Alice EvansMargaret Frances Jane Lowenfeld (4 February 1890 – 2 February 1973) was a British pioneer of and, a medical researcher in medicine, and an author of several publications and academic papers on the study of child development. Lowenfeld developed a number of educational techniques which bear her name and although not mainstream, have achieved international recognition. Contents.Early years Margaret Lowenfield was born in in, London on 4 February 1890, as their second daughter, to a British mother and Polish father. Her father, from a wealthy family, had arrived in England in the early 1880s, apparently penniless from. He married Alice Evans, in 1884. He soon became a wealthy businessman through several ventures, such as buying up rundown theatres in the and starting the in, selling non-alcoholic beer as the temperance movement took hold.
Lowenfeld was educated at, England, with her older sister, who went on to be an influential figure in. Career Medical training and Polish mission work. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children where Margaret worked for a short period.Lowenfeld followed her sister into the in, London.
By the outbreak of the, she had passed the minimum requirement to practice medicine, In 1914 she got a job at the followed by a short period at the. In 1917 she got the and the. In 1918 she became a at the.Further training was interrupted when in late 1918 she joined a mission to, as Medical Officer for the British Typhus Unit. She also worked with the American YMCA assisting the Polish Army and POW department in stemming infectious diseases in her father's ancestral town of. The health of the children was a major influence on her later career as she speculated about the different outcomes in spite of their traumatic experiences. Lowenfeld returned to England briefly as war broke out between. She went on to to set up a medical department for prisoners of war and worked on improving and undertook refugee work.In 1921 due to her own illness, Lowenfeld returned to London, and came into contact with, a pioneer of both.
Through this association Lowenfeld developed an interest in as a treatment of and learned about the work of who co-founded the. Lowenfeld's limited medical experience in England made it easier to follow a research career. She became a researcher at the studying infant health and was influenced by, a pioneer of childcare. In 1923 she obtained a fellowship and Muirhead Scholarship to study at the where she worked on childhood rheumatism.
In 1924 she returned to infant feeding with a scholarship at the Royal Free Hospital. She also established a private practice in Queen Anne Street, London, which she kept for the rest of her working life. Alongside this research, between 1926–7 she undertook voluntary work as a medical officer at the newly opened pioneering health centre in South London, known as the, a service integrating health and social work to combat inner city deprivation. Child Therapy. An individual engaging in sandplay therapy.In 1928 Dr Lowenfeld established the Children's Clinic for the Treatment and Study of Nervous and Difficult Children, one of the first child guidance clinics in Britain, set up in, London. By 1931, it had developed into the 'Institute for Child Psychology' (ICP).
The ICP trained child therapists in the use of Lowenfeld's theories and techniques. It was during 1929 that from the use of a sand tray, toys and models that the Lowenfeld World Technique was first established. It was first shown to the psychology community in 1931 and later in 1937 to the conference it was observed by who attended the conference. Subsequently, the theories and methods originated by Lowenfeld became the basis of a range of therapeutic techniques, in particular the development of credited to Dora M. Kalff, a Swiss Jungian analyst, who studied with Dr Lowenfeld.Lowenfeld's first book on her theories and techniques of child psychotherapy, Play in Childhood, was published in 1935 in the USA where her techniques had become popular, and remains an influential if, not mainstream, work to this day. Lowenfeld's research during the late 1930s was influenced by the work of the English philosopher. Between 1937 and 1938 she presented her theories on child behaviour to the, for which she received mixed reviews.
During the the ICP clinic was evacuated to, Hertfordshire. The ICP was re-established in London after the War, it continued to thrive and eventually became funded by the. On the Psychotherapy of Children was an important monograph presented at a conference organised by her at the ICP in 1948. In this the Lowenfeld Mozaic Test was first described. Although Lowenfeld's second important book, The World Technique begun in 1956, was partially completed in 1959, it was not published till 1979, six years after her death. Floor Games by H. Wells Educational research and techniques Lowenfeld was greatly impressed by the work of anthropologist, whom she met in 1948 and who later influenced Lowenfeld's research on child education and her views on.
The first technique invented and developed by Dr. Lowenfeld, The Lowenfeld World Technique (1929) was influenced by the book, created by in 1911, which she recalled enjoying as a child. The other techniques she created were Lowenfeld Mosaics (1948), Lowenfeld Poleidoblocs (1950s), and Lowenfeld Kaleidoblocs (1960s).
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Recognition and Legacy Margaret Lowenfeld's techniques are featured in a special cabinet in the History of Medicine section at the, London and her work is also well represented in a major semi-permanent exhibition at the Museum, 'Mind Your Head', that celebrated the Centenary of the British Psychological Society.Summarising her legacy, The Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld Trust records it thus:-Her outstanding contributions sprang from her recognition that play is an important activity in children's development and that language is often an unsatisfactory medium for children to express their experiences.